page_title: Abba Eban
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Abba Eban / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: The king of Nepal, Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, in his visit to the Plastics Research Lab at the en:Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in 1958. From left to right: Israel's foreign minister en:Abba Eban, Mahendra, Shaul Gassner and Prof. David Vofsi. The picture was taken using Shaul Gassner's camera. Shaul was working at the Plastics Research Lab at the time of Mahendra's visit. He agreed to release this photo under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License version 2.5. He also uploaded it to his Flickr album (https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaul_renee/630426076) under the same license.Čeština: Nepálský král Mahéndra (uprostřed v saku) během návštěvy Izraele v roce 1958, při návštěvě Weizmannova institutu věd.
context_page_description: Abba Solomon Meir Eban was an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages.
  During his career, he was Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations. He was also Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
context_section_description: In 1988, after three decades in the Knesset, he lost his seat over internal splits in the Labour Party. He devoted the rest of his life to writing and teaching, including serving as a visiting academic at Princeton University, Columbia University and George Washington University. He also narrated television documentaries including Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (PBS, 1984), for which he was host, Israel, A Nation Is Born (1992), and On the Brink of Peace (PBS, 1997).
  Eban died in 2002 and was buried in Kfar Shmaryahu, north of Tel Aviv. He was survived by his wife, Shoshana "Suzy" (née Ambache) (sister of Aura Herzog), who died in 2011, and their two children.
caption: Abba Eban (left) escorting the King of Nepal in a 1958 visit to the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. Shortly after the visit, Eban became President of the Institute.
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